Patricia Manning

Patricia Manning is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and relationship struggles. She writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters to each person. Patricia draws on many approaches to meet individual needs, and she aims to help clients find clearer purpose and greater balance in day-to-day life.

She began working with children and families more than four decades ago while studying psychology at Wofford College. Early roles included child protection work, permanency planning, and adoption services. That hands-on experience continued in foster care, residential treatment, psychiatric hospitals, alternative schools, and a shelter for people affected by domestic violence and sexual assault.

Patricia returned to school and earned a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling in 2008 from Webster University. Since then she has built an 11-year counseling career focused on trauma, family challenges, parenting concerns, and life transitions. Her background includes long-term work supporting people as they process trauma and rebuild routine functioning.

Her approach centers on the person and their lived story. She combines client-centered care with methods that include attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, and EMDR for trauma processing. Sessions emphasize practical tools, clearer thinking, and steady emotional coping.

Patricia describes her philosophy as rooted in existential ideas about meaning, loss, and responsibility, layered with a biopsychosocial view of each person’s circumstances. She offers steady support while challenging unhelpful patterns so people can move toward more satisfying and resilient lives.

How Patricia’s approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current bonds. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and learn new ways of connecting and trusting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and anger. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity when trauma is a core issue.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Patricia will work with each person to match methods to goals and preferences, trying strategies and adjusting as needed. The plan evolves based on what is helping and what feels achievable in everyday life.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten commute time, and allow for more consistent check-ins during life transitions. It can also offer alternatives when shorter, phone-based check-ins or video conversations are more practical. Licensed professionals can adapt tools like CBT exercises, attachment work, and some EMDR elements to online sessions to keep progress moving forward.